Leaping Cholla Podcast

In Ep 44 we finish section 45 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). Pivotal to this section is the distinction between decision that grounds the site for the grounding of the truth of beyng or decision that uses culture and worldview as resources in an unending technologized battle. Only in the former type of...

In Ep 43 we start reading through section 45 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger. The topic is “the decision.” Heidegger’s goal is to put forward a concept of decision that “arises through an experience of the necessity of the most extreme assignment from the innermost plight of the abandonment by being.”...

We finish reading section 44 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) wherein is discussed the truth of beyng, metaphysics’ perplexity with itself as “theory of knowledge,” the degradation of being into the correctness of representation, and the turning that is meant by “decision.” We conclude with thoughts on how “questioning into beyng” is the...

In the first half section 44 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Martin Heidegger we are presented with a number of decisions – between subject and Dasein, between animal as substance and rationale as culture or beyng in its future abode, between art as an arrangement of lived experiences or a setting-into-work of...

In section 43 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger we read of decision, both in its standard existential-psychological-anthropological sense of choosing or preferring and in its more originary sense as an opening of the temporal-spacial playing field in which the appropriation of Dasein by beyng takes place. We then discuss how this...

In section 42 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger we read how the “way” is original questioning after the meaning of beyng, how all historiological procedure must be dropped in order to conduct this questioning, and how the questions must always change not by objection but standing up to beyng and challenging...

Sections 38-41 of Contributions are completed in this episode, so a lot of ground is covered. We read about sigetics, or the logic of silence, the conjuncture of the six elements of original thinking, and how we must arrive at beyng thru the language of being, which experiences a transformation thereby. We finish on a...

We rip thru sections 35 – 37 and read about the transformation from a language of being to a language of beyng, how the seeking must be the finding in the perpetuation of the questioning, and how bearing silence arises out of the essentially occurring origin of language itself from the basic experience which is...

Concluding section 34 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), we read and discuss how the basic question can lead us not only forward but back to a more original confrontation with the guiding question, how the determination of beingness only leads to an accumulation of “categories,” and how the leap into the truth of...

We read section 33 and part of section 34 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) in which is discussed the question of beyng as outside calculations of purposes and values, how the tacit presentiment of the event offers itself in historical recollection as primordial temporality, and time as a directive toward, and resonating with,...

Concluding section 32 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about the instituting that is involved in truth as sheltering of the cleared-concealed, the care-taking that abides in various modes of production, and philosophy as the finding and making appear the simple sights and native forms in which the essential occurrence of beyng...

We read section 32 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss how the transporting-captivating of truth can harden into indifference, how our understanding of space and time is a consequence of understanding beings as Being and truth as correctness, and how an “indifferencing” of time and space lies at the root of anxious...

In reading sections 31 and part of section 32 of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we hear of the self-certainty of Dasein in its grounding law-giving and in its enduring of wrath, of the carrying out of truth in the sheltering of beings, and of truth as the clearing/concealing. This leads us to...

In Section 30 of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we learn that meditation is necessarily meditation on oneself, that ecological self-consciousness as a calculable entity is misleading, and that we must move beyond ourselves to selfhood via the appropriation of Dasein by beyng. From this vantage we discuss the notion of the questable...

In Sections 28 and 29 of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about the immeasurableness of inceptual thinking as finite thinking, the alternative rigor of inceptual thinking as the freedom of the joining of its junctures, and the compellingness of general reasoning’s results coming from the contentment with a system. This leads...

In reading sections 26 & 27 of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we discover the distinction between “the rational animal” (past human being) vs. “the steward of beyng” (future human being), a mapping of the meditative process or “the long preparation for the decision regarding truth,” and the carrying out of the resonating,...

In sections 24 and 25 of Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read about the aberrant demands on inceptual thinking, sovereignty over the masses thru the shackles of organization, and the proclivity to think of one’s self as an objective “examplar” of the species “human being,” concluding with a conversation about the purpose...

In Section 23, entitled Inceptual Thinking – Why Thinking Out of the Beginning, we read about confronting the end of the first beginning, the greatest occurrence being the most intimate event, letting beyng protrude into being, the sigetic or logic of silence, the uselessness of philosophical thinking, and, along with the question in the title,...

In Section 22 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), Heidegger continues his discourse on “inceptual thinking.” Inceptual thinking is the “inventive thinking of the truth of beyng,” it “opens up what is most question-worthy,” and it manifests its own “grounding, gathering, and retaining power.” And in the end, “the greatest occurrence, the most intimate...

In Section 21 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), entitled “Inceptual Thinking (Projection),” we read that “the inventive thinking of the truth of beyng is essentially projection.” What projection is, how it works, and who/what is the projector is then covered/revealed. From this vantage, we move inward and discuss repetitive thoughts, ways of subverting...

In Ep 24, we complete our reading of Section 19. We discuss the life of those who sacrifice themselves in the preparation for the other beginning, meditation on the self as the bringing of selfhood into decision, the constant emergence of the “always still other,” the pitfalls of the cult of the machinated personality, and...

In Ep 23, we start reading Section 19, entitled “Philosophy (On the question: who are we?). Here, Heidegger asserts that “philosophy is meditation on beyng, which is necessarily meditation on one’s self.” But the question – “who are we?” – carries a host of complications, obfuscations, and assumptions that prevent us from answering it in...

In this episode we read Section 18 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), which is titled “The Powerlessness of Thinking.” The obverse of this, however, is what we gather from the section, i.e. the power of essential thinking. Essential thinking is separate from machination and lived experience, takes place in the solitude of the...

We read Section 17 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). Titled “The Necessity of Philosophy,” this section centers on how philosophy is grounded in “the plight.” Coming from the German word “Not,” which means need, predicament, worry, hardship, suffering, necessity, and more, the term is here translated as “the plight,” which is what “propels...

In this episode we read Section 16 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss how philosophy is useless yet sovereign knowledge, the need for meditation to de-fix from the “here and now,” how meditation thereby “necessarily becomes the question of the truth of the history of philosophy,” and ultimately how the primary question...